Rhode Island Primary Care Physicians Corp.

Integra/RIPCPC pharmacists save Blue Cross Medicare Advantage program $1M

Health Services 08/14/2022

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island medical group’s pharmacy team’s savings of millions in direct and indirect pharmacy costs in 2020 was recently highlighted in...

Care New England names chief population health officer

Health Services 05/29/2022

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Ana Tuya Fulton, a leading geriatrician at Care New England Health System, has added to her list of titles. Fulton has been...

Partnership between Integra and Flourish Fund aims to support parents-to-be at...

Health Services 04/10/2022

PROVIDENCE – As a result of a partnership between Integra Community Care Network and a Newport-based organization, some parents-to-be who are also patients at...

Integra partners with House of Hope to address homelessness

Health Services 01/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – A new partnership between Providence-based Integra Community Care Network and House of Hope Community Development Corp. in Warwick aims to place more...

INUNDATED: Dr. Brian Kwetkowski is a general practitioner with his own practice in East Greenwich. Since the onset of COVID-19, he has been inundated with calls from patients and nonpatients seeking authorization for tests, as well as other medical problems. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Primary care concerns intensified by pandemic

Coronavirus 05/08/2020

Hospitals dominate headlines when it comes to caring for those sick with COVID-19. But the pandemic has also put a spotlight on an oft-overlooked segment...

PREPARED: Health workers type on laptops inside the incoming COVID-19 patient tent set up outside the Emergency Department at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP.

Coronavirus preparations at R.I. hospitals kick into high gear

Coronavirus 04/03/2020

Normally more than 90% full, Rhode Island Hospital’s occupancy rate in late March dipped to about 75%. The 247-bed The Miriam Hospital had more...

CLOSE COORDINATION: Dr. David Bourassa, right, chief medical officer for Thundermist Health Center, speaks with medical assistant Aminata Gassama. Bourassa said primary care doctors can coordinate a patient’s care better than a CVS MinuteClinic because they know a patient’s medical history.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Docs worry CVS clinics coming between them, patients

Health Matters 07/19/2019

When it comes to minor health care issues, scheduling a doctor’s office visit can sometimes be more of a headache than many people can...

Five Questions With: Andrea Galgay

Health Services 07/07/2019

Andrea Galgay was named chair in 2016 of Rhode Island’s State Innovation Model Steering Committee, which oversaw spending of a multiyear, $20 million grant...

SHARED GOALS: Noah Benedict, Rhode Island Primary Care Physicians chief operating officer, puts special emphasis on getting input from everyone on his team.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Team spirit crucial to Benedict’s game plan at R.I. Primary Care...

Health Services 04/26/2019

2019 C-Suite Awards | CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, PRIVATE COMPANY: NOAH BENEDICT | RHODE ISLAND PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS CORP. SINCE BECOMING CHIEF operating officer of Rhode...